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installing USB in pre USB era PC

By gwynnes1 · 16 years ago

TI Extensa 660CDT notebook PC, 1996 vintage, upgraded to Win 98SE. I tried to install PCMCIA USB card in the PC (The PC does have CardBus support); after installing the software for the card, a message saying that USB support was blocked by the BIOS. The BIOS is Phoenix ver. 4.05, 1996 and no updated BIOS is available for this PC. Looking at the BIOS, no mention of USB can be found. Is there any way around this problem?

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there are sites that have editors and templates you could write your own

by lawrephord145 · 16 years ago In reply to installing USB in pre USB ...

there are sites that have editors and templates you could write your own changes to the bios [think hex]
or apply a shadow bios !

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